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Just to throw in my 2cp, I recently decided to retire my summoner in the 5th level game we were playing. I just switched from the DMs chair back to a player with my group. The rest of the party continued to play their existing characters and I brought in a new summoner. After a few sessions of play a couple of the players mentioned that my eidolon made the rest of the melee fighters redundant. The cleric and fighter/cleric in the party both became charged with just keeping the eidolon up so that he could deal horrific amounts of damage and drop the enemy quickly. As a biped with 4 claw attacks, the eidolon was truly a combat monster compared to the rest of the party and was impacting the enjoyment of the game by the rest of the players.

I have since swapped out the summoner for a druid.

I use QuickRoll. Pretty easy to use.

Unless otherwise noted, polymorph spells cannot be used to change into specific individuals. Although many of the fine details can be controlled, your appearance is always that of a generic member of that creature's type. Polymorph spells cannot be used to assume the form of a creature with a template or an advanced version of a creature.

I would think that this restriction would not apply to something like the megaraptor mentioned above, however. The Bestiary seems to indicate that such an animal should exist and gives a method for obtaining stats for the creature through the use of templates or through increased hit dice and a size increase.

My understanding is that the beta version included a megaraptor, but it was dropped in the final version of the book to make room for additional dinosaur types.

Using a giant dire tiger would really come down to whether or not the DM indicated that such a species of huge tiger exists in his/her world and whether or not the druid is familiar with the animal.

The Bestiary entry on the deinonychus indicates a couple of ways of developing stats for a megaraptor, basically a large version of the dinosaur. I have not worked out all of the stats for that version, but from the standpoint of using as it as the basis for a druid's wildshape, the only things that seem to be needed are the following:

Size: Large
Move: 60'
Attacks: 2 talons (2d6), 1 bite (2d6), 1 foreclaws (1d6)
Special Attacks: pounce
Reach: 10'

If these are the correct applicable stats for the megaraptor, it looks to be the superior animal form for a druid at 6th level.

Has anyone used this as a basis for wildshaping? Is there any problem with the large version presented here?